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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
The digital music player industry has been booming for several years now. The Apple iPod is now just one of dozens of great portable players on the market. Toshiba has the Gigabeat. The Creative Zen Vision gives the iPod a run for the money. Microsoft has the Zune. Philips has the GoGear. These are just a few. What are you needs? Do you want to play videos and music? What formats do you prefer? There are many variables to consider.
So you’ve done the research and picked out a player. Where do you go to get your tunes? Now the fun starts! Google the search term “legal music downloads” and what do you get? 36,400,000 returned links! Thirty Six Million!!! How many are really “legal”? Who are the top players? Where do you get the best deals? The top results are at the top because they paid to be there. Does that mean that they’re the best? Not necessarily. The only way to find that out is to check them out. Take your time and do some comparison shopping like you would for any other product. Check the numerous music forums. Ask your buddies. Be smart.
Want to narrow that 36 Million number down just a tad? Go to
www.LegalMusicDownloads.com for a list of excellent links to music download review, music player review, and much more.
That’s the skinny from BatMan!
(The author, Joe “BatMan” Maloukis”, has been designing and hosting websites on the ‘net for over ten years and became interested in music download options when his 17-year-old daughter began downloading files for her Apple iPod Nano.)
Joseph C. Maloukis
Owner, Bat City Productions
“Classic Website Designs & Hosting”
http://www.BatCity.com
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
One of the great things about having a personal computer at home is that you can create a lot of printed matter that at one time had to be special ordered or custom printed. With all the great software packages on the market today, just about anyone can design all sorts of documents, and create them for very little cost. Nowhere is this truer than with personal address labels.
Once upon a time, it was necessary to spend time with a printer, going over such details as the font size, the style of the font and the color scheme. If you came up with a design you liked initially, but then decided was not quite what you wanted after the fact, you were pretty much stuck. By designing your own address labels in the privacy of your home today, you can save the template and then print out a sample sheet of the labels. If they turn out the way you like, then all is well. If not, then you only have a few labels created, and can easily go back and change your template.
Also gone are the days when you had to order address labels in bulk if you wanted to get the best price. These days, you can print out as many or as few address labels as you want. After your initial investment in software that will allow you to create the labels, your only ongoing expenses will be related to the printer ink and the sheets of blank labels. Often, you can catch both these items on sale, which sweetens the deal that much more.
Labels for special occasions used to be a problem as well. How many of us could never find the Christmas address labels we so carefully put away last year? When you make your own address labels, you can customize them to fit any special event, whether it be a holiday season, invitations for a wedding or baby shower or an anniversary party. There is no need to figure out where you can put the excess labels to use next time, since you will only be printing out as many as you need. Save the template in a special folder on your computer and it will be there the next time a similar event rolls around.
Making your own address labels is not difficult at all. As a matter of fact, the software packages that can be used to create custom labels seem to become easier to use and cheaper to buy with each passing year. Many of the programs will walk you through the process, allowing you to make choices in font size, color and type as you go. Often, you will have the option of adding some sort of a border or seasonal decoration to the personal address labels as well. And if you want to change something about the finished product, it is very easy to go back and make a change. Why not give it a try today? You will have a lot of fun, as well as create labels that are just what you want.
Craig Thornburrow is an acknowledged expert in his field. You can get more free advice on address labels and personalized address labels at http://www.printingpostage.com
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Family photos have gone digital – they are better quality, cheaper to print and digital images can go anywhere. You can instantly email your latest snapshots to your friends and family with few quick clicks, turn them into a slide show on your website, or you can print them for pennies.
Of course you’ll want to print and save your most priceless photos for framing, hanging on the wall or adding to family photo albums so you’ll want the best photo printer for the job. Digital photo printing has come a long way in recent years, its now possible to print a lab quality photograph directly from your home photo printer.
Almost all photo printers today produce true photo quality prints. In most cases you can’t tell the difference between photos printed from a photo printer and a print developed from film at a lab. What is even better, is that you can often get nice quality prints from photo printers costing as little as fifty or sixty bucks.
Weather you choose a Cannon ink jet photo printer or a HP photo printer, the difference between any given model almost always is speed and extra features, not necessarily the print quality. Each make and model of photo printers offer true photo quality prints, but the results range from nice to outstanding. Less expensive photo printers produce nice quality prints that are sufficient for everyday shots, but if you want to turn your memories into masterpieces, you’ll want to a high quality photo printer.
There are three categories of photo printers to choose from. The first is the ink jet photo printer. Ink jet photo printers offer at least one photo enhancing feature and also can be combined into an all in one printer. They print reasonably well, providing good photo prints but are known for slow print speed. The ink jet printer should be considered if you want a single, multifunction photo printer. You may want to consider a second printer if you regularly print photos.
Dedicated photo printers are the second category of printers to consider. These printers are normally limited to printing on special photo paper, usually thick, glossy photo paper to produce high quality, realistic photographs. Dedicated photo printers can also print on smaller paper sizes such as 4 by 6 to produce snapshot images. You can find dedicated photo printers that utilize ink jet and thermal-dye technology.
Professional photo printers are the third category to be considered. If you are a serious amateur photographer, you may be interested in the less expensive choices in this group. Professional photo printers produce high quality prints on various custom imaging papers in many customizable sizes. The main benefit to owning a professional photo printer is that they can print large 11 by 17 inch or larger photographs with perfect clarity.
No matter which type of photo printer you are considering, its always a good idea to check out the latest photo printer reviews and see which models the experts recommend before making your purchase.
Looking for a photo printer that will give you professional results without busting your bank account? Check out PC Printer Review’s list of the Top 5 Photo Printers in America and while you’re there, you can pick up some easy Photo Printing Tips with their free photo printing tip sheet: 27 Tricks to Picture Perfect Prints.
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
Besides many accessories that PSP has acquired, once in awhile there is one that gets more and more interest from people. It is Blueye. You can now take your calls without missing a strike. In fact, it almost turns your portable audio supply into a Bluetooth headset and is a great PSP accessory.
Blueye fits inline between your own headphones and your PSP player. Blueye supports all players and headphones that use 3.5 mm plugs; in other words any portable player or headphones you are might have. If somebody calls you when you are listening to your music, Blueye will mute the music and allow you to handle your call using your own headphones and a Bluetooth connection with your phone. This PSP accessory helps you listen to the music again after you ended the call.
Blueye also supports interactive voice control. This means you will not use your hands in order to answer the phone; you just answer with your voice. It also has a Personalized Ringtone. For example, when you receive a call, an audio stream turns into your very own ring tone in real-time.
Blueye has design signs that merge effectiveness with style. For example, did you know that the Blueye buttons were designed so that they could be used with your gloves on? Blueye also has twin microphones – Uniquely Blueye gives the option to use either the internal or a personally extended external microphone. Whichever option you choose, you get to use your proper headphones as a PSP accessory.
For this PSP accessory, it is possible to choose from a variety of colors and one that best suits your mood. Blueye has an open platform as it provides you with toolkits, hardware, interface specs, and sample code forum. In fact, whatever you need to build Blueye into your own world and allow the mobile phone to become your personal remote control. Blueye is a wireless bridge that acts as an intelligent gateway between your mobile and anything you choose to connect Blueye to.
The Blueye turns any personal player into a Bluetooth hands free device that will work with your Bluetooth mobile and as a PSP accessory. With a talk time of 10 hours, your mobile phone will power out before Blueye does. So relax and enjoy your PSP games, PSP videos with this nice PSP accessory. Battery life will vary depending on environment and mode of operation used. Charge via USB. Any USB port (PC or MAC) will do. You can even use the USB charger that comes with your PSP. It has a power capacity large enough to never let you down when you need it.
Web 2.0 is not a feature but a complete philosophy that has been designed into Blueye. It gives you control and lets you choose where you want Blueye to be. Using the developer tools, you can use Blueye to create your own functions. Blueye is an intelligent connectivity gateway between your mobile and anything you care to connect Blueye to. So as a PSP accessory, it suits perfectly because it does not distract you from your habits and it eases your experience.
http://www.AllPSPInfo.com brings you the latest on PSP. PSPs are very popular, and we want to bring you the most up to date information online! Be sure to check out our latest information page on PSP accessories.
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Dot net Application Development
Visual Studio.NET is an intelligent development tool that allows developing applications that target the .NET Framework. From a developer’s vista, .NET comprises of three things viz., the .NET Framework, the .NET Framework SDK, and the development environment. The tool is also used to create customized controls and components that can be used as a part of the application. Components are objects or the features that are used to construct, organize and test Visual Studio programs. The Toolbox window of the Visual Studio .NET IDE contains all the components. Components are considered as controls that are derived from the Control class and have a user interface. Some controls are combination of other controls and are derived from the UserControl. The UserControl objects and Form objects can be developed with the designer of the VS.NET IDE. A simple user interface can be designed by dragging and dropping controls from the Toolbox window and setting the property values and events in the Properties window. All the properties that are set are stored in a .resx file for the locale. The IDE then builds the satellite assemblies for each locale’s .resx file in your project. The VS.NET IDE designer does not allow developing the user interface of a Control class; it only allows developing components and controls.
From the viewpoint of a good .NET developer, the below mentioned skills are very much essential for developing .NET applications.
.NET Developing Components:
Developing Controls: The vital fact about a control is that it has a visual element, but the visual representation of a class derived from Control is not allowed by the Windows Forms designer. Instead it shows the schematic representation of the components that the control uses while dragging from the Server Explorer or Toolbox window.
Resources and Internationalization: .NET and Win32 support a different model of resources. In Win32, resources are held in a section that is part of the portable executable (PE) file format and the resources are inlaid within this segment. But in the case of.NET, resources are part of an assembly, but they can be inlaid within the assembly or supplied as separate files.
Resources and .NET .NET has been designed with internationalization in mind. For example, let us consider of an application that has been downloaded from a trusted Web site and the Web site is in a locale different from yours. There are various applications that are created in their own locale. If the language is different from yours, it is obvious that the application has been localized to your locale and that the Web site gives you the option of downloading different localized versions. This scheme is typically used by Win32 applications.
Locales, Civilization, and Languages Naming conventions in .NET are defined in RFC 1766. Civilizations are generally named with the pattern xx-yy, where xx represents the language (en for English, fr for French) while yy represents the area where the language is used (AU for Australia, US for United States). The pattern en-US represents that English is spoken in the US.
IT Staffing companies has gathered enormous openings for skilled .NET developers and provides extensive career growth.
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
I’ve heard storing batteries in the refrigerator makes them last longer. Is it true?
Many people have been told that storing alkaline batteries in the refrigerator actually prolongs the battery life. But before you start mixing apples and alkalines, there are some things you should know.
The concept of refrigerating batteries originated from a time when batteries were predominately made with mercury. Many people, photographers especially, sought to decrease the amount of mercury dispelled from these batteries while not in use by storing them in colder temperatures.
Eventually, it was discovered that the refrigerator was a great place to accomplish this. Then, in the 80’s, the U.S. government outlawed the sale of mercury batteries due to health concerns. Since then, alkaline batteries have all but replaced the once-dominant mercury cells. Alkaline batteries do not reap the same benefits of refrigerated storage as mercury cells do. Most battery manufacturers still suggest storing your cells at room temperature or slightly below. Most people can get by with storing their alkaline batteries in a jar in a cabinet. Rechargeable batteries are the same way, but you should be careful not to store them for very long without charging them periodically. Rechargeable batteries that are stored for a long time without being charged have a tendency to run down very quickly. Technically, you won’t do any harm to your batteries by refrigerating them. But unless you happen to have a mercury battery lying around, you should probably save room for other, more edible items.
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
LuvComputers PC Repair Tweak No.3
Now moving on to the final part of this little series of Windows XP tweaks.
In this part were going to improve the computers all around start up time. The way that were going to do this is to remove the amount of programs starting up when we boot our computer. Truth be known, there are quite a few of these that just don’t need to be starting up when we boot the machine.
Now the programs starting up will differ from machine to machine, depending on what programs are installed on a given computer. I’m not going to go into to much detail here. I’m just going to give you an overall idea of the sort of things that really aren’t necessary to be loading up and starting.
Tweak-NO.3
1. The first thing that we need to do is to get into our run box again.
So remember, click Start, menu opens, find and click run.
2. Once we have the run box open, we’re going to type into the run box the phrase “msconfig”, without quotations. Then click ok. Now we are in what is known as the System Configuration Utility.
3. Now that were in the utility, the tab were going to be needing is the Startup tab. Now for the purpose of this, we are going to keep it basic, I don’t want people unchecking things that shouldn’t be unchecked.
4. As you can see there are many things that are starting up when you boot your computer, and frankly, up startup, many of them just aren’t necessary.
There are programs such as Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, etc. that really don’t need to be started when you boot up, unless of course your one of those people that likes to be automatically logged in upon startup. But, any of these sorts of chat programs will start when you need them to, just by double clicking their icon or else starting them from the programs menu.
So, taking these things out during the startup process, will speed up your startup times, by quite a lot in many cases.
Does Windows Office need to be started when you boot your computer. No. Probably not.
Does your webcam software need to be started at this time. Again, probably not.
Go through these programs starting up and choose which one’s you really don’t need to be starting when you boot up, and it will improve your performance.
Now, there are some things that should be starting as well, and you should be leaving these alone. These are things like your antivirus protection. For the purpose of this tweak, leave the checks next to items that look more like filenames alone. These are items like isschd, ccapp, and things along this line. In future tutorials I’ll get into these a little bit more. For now, let’s just stick to basics.
Once your finished unchecking the programs that don’t need to be starting, and are sure that these are fine. Remember what I said about your antivirus software. Anything that has to do with your Internet Security, leave these checks in place.
After your finished, click ok, after you click ok, you will be asked to restart your computer. After your computer restarts your changes will take place.
So there you go, this concludes our little LuvComputers PC Repair Tweaks for WinXP series. I hope that you enjoyed these tutorials and learned a little bit from them.
Again I kept things fairly straight forward. I didn’t want people checking and unchecking things that may have an undesirable effect.
Well see you all soon, and take care of yourself!
Thanx Davin
LuvComputer’s PC Repair
Davin Ogden is recognized and certified IT Support Specialist. He has performed
contract work with IBM, Walmart, and several Canadian Bank chains. Davin now
runs LuvComputer’s PC Repair at http://www.luvcomputers.com , online as well as
offline in his hometown of Kimberley, BC Canada. Davin also offers an
outstanding newsletter to his visitors and subscribers. If you would like to
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
If you own a computer printer, you have probably run into print quality problems at some point. Spotty or blurry print quality is a common problem.
Although the printer may be to blame, in fact the ink is often at fault. This is even more common if you use refilled ink cartridges.
Most modern printers are made to work with specific types of ink. A slightly different type can greatly affect print quality. Although “refilling” ink seems simple, even the color “black” comes in endless shades. With colors, of course, the differences are even more numerous.
Use the exact ink type required for your printer to ensure that quality will be sharp and clear, with bright, accurate colors. The documents you print will also last for many years and won’t fade or distort.
However, the wrong ink will likely give you blurred or smudged prints with dull colors that don’t do justice to the original picture.
When you replace your ink, to be sure that the ink is exact and compatible with your brand and model of printer.
For example, if you have an Epson printer, make sure to use an ink specified for your Epson printer. If you use an ink that is made for an HP or Canon printer, for example, your print quality will be disappointing.
If you are refilling your own ink cartridges, follow the refill instructions exactly. Today’s printers are very complicated pieces of equipment requiring high quality ink and the proper cartridge.
Frank Bolsom writes about various printing related topics such as refilled ink cartridges on the Zogol.com website. Do you run a website that is related to printing or computers? Visit http://www.zogol.com for more helpful articles that you are free to use on your own website.
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
LuvComputers PC Repair Tweak-NO.2
Welcome back!
Ok, so in Tweak-No.1, we performed a couple of changes to Windows XP to improve your overall quality of your session experience a bit. In tweak No.2 we are going to expand on this a little bit, but we are also going to improve the shutdown time of your computer measurably.
This tweak is going to involve getting into the registry, so heed my warning from Tweak No.1.
Please do not perform this tweak if your at all uncomfortable about going into the registry, OK!
Tweak-No.2 Now, to get into the registry in Windows XP, we first need to access our Run box. To access the Run box: Press Start
Find Run in the first menu that opens up, and then click Run!
Now we are in the Run box, simple hey.
Ok, now that we are in the run box, we want to type in the phrase “regedit“, without the apostrophes of course.
When you access the registry you will notice under the My Computer icon, the different subsections of the registry. These include:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_USERS
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
In this tweak we want to click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder.
This opens up to all the different folders stored in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER parent folder.
Scroll down to the folder that is labeled, Control Panel, then click the plus sign to open the subfolders of the Control Panel folder.
Once this is finished, you’ll notice many folders, Accessibility, Appearance, Colors etc. For the purpose of this tweak we are going to open the Desktop folder.
If you look to the right of your screen in the registry editor, there are many, many different things you could play around with in here. Please don’t! Let’s just concentrate on the few that we are going to change for the purpose of this tweak.
1. The first value we are going to change is MenuShowDisplay. Basically what this little feature does is, governs the amount of time it takes to open up your menu’s on your desktop. The default value is set to 400. We can change this value, simply by double clicking the actual heading, MenuShowDisplay.
So once you have double clicked it, reset it too, 200, this will improve the speed at which your menu’s open on your desktop. I usually set mine to 150, but this opens them up pretty fast. You can play around with different values here, but anything lower than 150 is usually opening up your menu’s to fast.
So like I say, you can play around with the value a bit, to your liking.
2. If you scroll up from MenuShowDisplay, the value we are going to change next is AutoEndTasks. The default value for this is 0. We are going to switch this to 1. The same as we did the first one, just double click the heading, then change it, and then click OK. Basically this is like a switch, as in binary, 0 being off, and 1 means on. Changing this value to one will automatically shutdown a hungup program for you.
3. Now were going to go down the list a little bit, to HungUpAppTimeout. The default of this value is 5000. Switch this to 1000.
Note:Be a little bit careful with this one. If for some reason you might have a program that runs very slowly in WinXP, on your machine, the operating might falsely think that the program is hung up. In such a case, you can increase this value in increments of 1000, until the false hang ups stop.
4. Lastly, to finish off, we are going to change one more value. This being the value of WaitToKillAppTimeout, the default for this is 20000. Set this value to 4000. There really shouldn’t be any reason to go back and switch this later on, as with HungAppTimeout. This will close your programs much faster, and great when shutting down if you haven’t closed a program before trying to shutdown your computer.
A couple of things you should know about the Registry is that these changes take effect immediately, and there isn’t anyway to undue the changes in the way you might be used to. The only way to change them back to default is if you remember what the defaults are. Well, actually that’s not true. There is a way, but that is beyong the scope of this little tweak section were doing. If your unsure, and are worried about the effects, of some of these changes, I suggest you write them down somewhere, just in case for some reason you would like to go back to Windows XP’s original settings.
One more thing, always back up the registry before making any changes such as these. I’m quite sure you will appreciate the responsiveness that these changes in the registry have on your computer.
Let’s move onto the third part of LuvComputers PC Repair-Windows XP tweaks .
Davin Ogden
LuvComputer’s PC Repair
Davin Ogden is recognized and certified IT Support Specialist. He has performed
contract work with IBM, Walmart, and several Canadian Bank chains. Davin now
runs LuvComputer’s PC Repair at http://www.luvcomputers.com , online as well as
offline in his hometown of Kimberley, BC Canada. Davin also offers an
outstanding newsletter to his visitors and subscribers. If you would like to
join please go to http://www.luvcomputers.com/newsletter.html
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